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Attached two-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1840 as one of terrace of five (Nos. 7-11) within longer row of similar houses, having two-storey return to north end of rear. Now in commercial office use. M-profile roof, hipped to north end of rear span, behind blind brick parapet with masonry coping, parapet gutters, and chimneystack with rendered base, brick upper part and terracotta pots. Flemish bond red brick walling on granite plinth course over painted ruled-and-lined rendered basement walling. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with patent reveals, masonry sills and brick voussoirs. Timber sliding sash windows, three-over-three pane to top floor, six-over-six pane to first and second floors (recent replacement to first floor), one-over-one pane to ground floor, and two-over-two pane to basement. Decorative cast-iron balconettes to first floor, wrought-iron window-guards to second floor and wrought-iron grille to basement. Timber sash windows to rear, three-over-three pane to top floor, north bay having round-headed six-over-six pane window and south bay having eight-over-eight pane window to second floor and tripartite six-over-six pane below. Round-headed doorway with render surround and painted masonry doorcase comprising pro-style Ionic columns, plain entablature, plain fanlight and eleven-panel timber door with replacement brass furniture. Granite entrance platform with cast-iron boot-scrape and four convex bull-nosed steps. Basement area enclosed by decorative cast-iron railings on moulded granite plinth. Cast-iron gate and recent tiled steps to basement. Plain square-headed window and door openings beneath entrance platform. Yard to rear, with modernized two-storey mews building extended front and back to rear of plot.

A mid-nineteenth-century row house built in the Georgian style, displaying well-balanced proportions and the graded fenestration pattern, typical of the period. The house, along with the wider terrace and row, is attractive and relatively well-retained with original features, including a good Ionic doorcase and unusual convex entrance steps. The decorative balconettes further enhance the facade. The intact setting, with decorative railings and boot-scrape, contributes to the character of the streetscape and to the wider historic core of south Dublin city. Linking Mount Street Crescent to Lower Baggot Street, this street was laid out by Sydney Herbert from the early 1830s.